The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1887-01-15

scruple TO employ on Otnefs. By sur
prise of Providence he found himself
President Of tho United States High Of
fce and responsibility developed the good
that was in him. All his tendencies were
upward. He was steadily out living the
faults that we're incident to lower form
OF political experience, and had he BIZ Ell
elected "A second time there is reason to
believe tina: he would have ranked him
self among the best American Presidents,
unlesss too indulgent love 0! ease had
arrested his development.
The editorial fraternity has ], st a &C.
NAL and useful public man in the death
Of Erastus Brooks, whose life grew more
useful with years, and whose services 60
education and the cause of humanity
LITTERATEURs AND WARRIORS.
In litterateurs we lose Edwin Percy
Whippls, a critic Of no mean weight, an
sssayist, OF commendable ability, and
whilom lecturer, before lecturing lest
its charms with the public. He Vas ie.
garded as a man of ability even in Bos-
ton.
Paul Hamilton Hayne. of South Caro-
liua, poet of sweet and tender note,
but not Of great strength or scope. III
health repressed his ambition and linn
tied his flight. Some of his pieces will
60 into an anthology OF minor sweet sin
gers.
General Winfield 5. Hancock. His
life put to shame the saying that the
pen ID mightier than the sword. His
sword was mighty, his pen feeble. He
did not attain to the level of Grant, Sher-
man, Sheridan and Thomas, of the North:
nor OF Lee or Joseph Johnston, of tue
South. He easily led among the hon
ored names of Meade, Hooker, Sedgwick
and other division generals OF noble
build, Of imperturb2bl courage of quick
apprehension, and with all the gifts of
inspiring and leading men, he was sol
dier's beau ideal of a leader. He was
sminently lifted for his own profession,
and eminently not fitted for political life,
to which he aspired, like another great
soldier whose name he bore. His coun-
try will pass over the weakness, but will
not suffer his great and noble services
during the war to go into eclipse.
Time would fail me to speak. accord-
ing to their merits, Of Dr. Austin Flint,
whose medical writings are standard al
thorities; of DR.. Frank II. Hamilton,
eminent as surgeon and physician: OF Dr..
Dlo Lewis famous for his endeavors not
SO much to heal the sick as to keep men
from getting sick, and who should be
ranked as hygienist rather than ply
stefan; of Daniel d. Home, the spirit
ualst, who for a time TILED the world
with wonder; and, lastly, of John Hum
phrsy Noyes, who sought TO reduce social
life to the level of the sly and to reduce
virtue to Il wallow within it. 1t had been
better tor the founder OF the OneIda
Community had he died in his birth
Thousands of worthy men besides
the sun neither rises nor sets.
Ono name of remarkable significance
remains, that of John b. Cough. En-
glsh born but American bred, lie
emerged from designations and the esp.
tivity of drunkenness to become dehv-
erer Of those III like bondage lie was
bv nature dramatist and an orator.
For many years, at home and abroad, he
devoted himself with unequslled success
to the spread of temperance truth. Ii is
probable that no man Of this generation
or OF any other has spoken To SO many
people. To tho end of his life people
were not tired of hearing him. Men
laughed OF wept as he chose. With great
descriptive power, with All inexhaustible
fund OF witty stories, OF every shade and
degree, which he did not SO much mar
rate Is put into life, making them act
themselves out; with tears au1 si.as ard
profound pathos, with deep religious con-
victions and appeals as solemn as d, ath
itself, he went flaming through the land
to the very end an enthusiastic reformer
without bitterness or bigotry, loving,
generous, tender, good man and Chris
tian gentleman. OCher faithful men will
labor in the same field but there Will be
but one John B. Cough
HENRY WARD BEECHER.